The tasting itself had finished in the morning, so in the afternoon I returned to helping sort the Margrave’s paperwork.
“Haaahhh…”
“Your Excellency, if you don’t push through here, Emilia-sama will ban you from dinner as well.”
“Right. I’ll do it.”
Sue and the others were gradually learning how to handle the Margrave.
The moment they brought up the existence of Emilia-sama—an absolute authority for him—and Kent-chan, he would instantly switch into a serious mode. And when he did, his abilities were genuinely impressive. Once in “serious mode,” he sorted through the documents at a frightening speed.
The real question was how long that mode would last.
Still, somehow, he managed to scrape through on both stamina and willpower, and before long, the massive pile of documents had been completely cleared away.
“Come to think of it… this is the first time I’ve ever seen this office clean.”
“It was usually buried under paperwork.”
“Haaahhh…”
At that point, the exhausted Margrave aside, Sue and I were looking around the now-clean office. With some free time between shifts watching over the Margrave, we had joined the butler and attendants in cleaning the room.
Thanks to that, the office had turned into a very pleasant, refreshing space.
Creak.
“Waaah—it’s so clean!”
“Hm. Not bad at all. Quite well done.”
As evening approached, Kent-chan and the former margrave came into the office after being out. Both of them seemed pleased by the neatly cleaned room—but they completely ignored the Margrave, who was now slumped over in a state of total exhaustion.
Rattle-rattle-rattle.
“Yes, yes, a clean room really does make things go smoother.”
And then—just like the day before—Emilia-sama entered the room, pushing a cart piled high with documents. That must be the results from today’s field work. It was almost the same amount as yesterday, but since we had also cleared the backlog from the previous day, tomorrow’s workload should finally be lighter.
At least, in theory.
“At any rate, the urgent documents are finished for now. So from tomorrow, instead of watching over the Margrave, Shun and the others will be going out with me on field inspections. A special attendant will handle the Margrave.”
“A special attendant? There’s someone like that?”
“Yes. He used to serve the former Margrave—she was, in a sense, like his mistress. She fell ill and was on medical leave for a while, but Horn-chan healed her. The townspeople are fully aware of the ‘mistress’ situation, so there’s no problem at all.”
So… a publicly accepted former Margrave’s mistress and attendant in service to the household huh.
If such a person exists, then they might actually be able to stop the Margrave when he goes off the rails.
“Oh! I know! She’s a really beautiful lady!”
“She’s said to be from the celestial tribe, just like Horn!”
“And she also had a child with the former Margrave!”
Hey, Horn just casually dropped a bombshell there.
So it wasn’t just a mistress situation—they even had a child?
“Hahaha. When my wife passed away, she helped support me through my grief. The child has no claim to succession of the Marquis household, but I have properly paid child support.”
“Oneechan is really beautiful!”
Laughing heartily, the former Margrave explained the circumstances, while Kent-chan proudly praised the attendant’s child. It was certainly a complicated family situation, but since all parties involved accepted it, it didn’t seem to be a problem at all.
“.…Haaah.”
In any case, someone please hurry up and bring the Margrave back already.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeneijiworks.com
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